Selawik Lake ( Inupiaq: ''Imaġruk'') is a lake located southwest of

Selawik, Alaska , settlement_type = City , nickname = , motto = , image_skyline = 2010-06-25-CPX-8566a.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = An aerial view of Selawik in 2010 , imag ...

. It is long. It is adjacent to the

Selawik National Wildlife Refuge Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Alaska in the Waring Mountains was officially established in 1980 with the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). This national wildlife refuge is home to mammalian a ...

and the Baldwin Peninsula, feeding into the Hotham Inlet and

Kotzebue Sound Kotzebue Sound (russian: Залив Коцебу) is an arm of the Chukchi Sea in the western region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is on the north side of the Seward Peninsula and bounded on the east by the Baldwin Peninsula. It is long and w ...

. Selawik Lake is the third largest lake in

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

after

Iliamna Lake Iliamna Lake or Lake Iliamna (Yup'ik: ''Nanvarpak''; Dena'ina Athabascan: ''Nila Vena'') is a lake in southwest Alaska, at the north end of the Alaska Peninsula, between Kvichak Bay and Cook Inlet, about west of Seldovia, Alaska. It shares a na ...

and

Becharof Lake Becharof Lake is a long lake on the Alaska Peninsula. It is located south-east of Egegik, in the Aleutian Range. It is the second largest lake in Alaska after Iliamna Lake. It ranks eighth on list of largest lakes of the United States by volum ...

, and seventeenth largest lake in the

United States of America The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territo ...

History

Its

Iñupiaq language Iñupiaq Iñupiaq : , Inupiaq, Iñupiat , Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit is an Inuit language, or perhaps languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Terr ...

name was first reported in 1842–44 by Lt.

Lavrenty Zagoskin Lavrenty Alekseyevich Zagoskin (russian: link=no, Лаврентий Алексеевич Загоскин; 21 May 1808 – 22 January 1890) was a Russian naval officer and explorer of Alaska. Zagoskin was born in 1808 in the Russian district of ...

, IRN, who spelled it ''Chilivik'', and probably meant to apply to an Iñupiaq tribe or village. It appears to have been by one of the

Sir John Franklin Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through t ...

search expeditions about 1850.

References

Lakes of Alaska Bodies of water of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska {{NorthwestArcticAK-geo-stub